Last and upper protector.



W. G. PARKER.

LAST AND UPPER PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED OGT.30,1911.

1,082,422. Patented July 16, 1912.

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LAST AND UPPER FROTECTOB.

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Specification of Letters latent.

Application filed October 30, 1911. Serial No. 657,547.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM G. PARKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Nashua, in the county of I-Iillsboro and State of NewHampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inLaststand and the spindle forming a part of one or the other is a baseor shoulder upon which the bottom of the last rests. With the usualconstruction of last, a ferrule is fixed in the opening in the last andthe spindle enters this ferrule. Great difficulty has been experiencedon account of the splitting of lasts during the above named processes oflasting, heeling and leveling and also from the fact that the uppers arefrequently cut and ruined by being caught "between the square edges ofthe last and the square edges of the base or shoulder. V

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a last with my device inplace. Fig. 2 is a top view and Fig. 3 is a back view of my device. Fig.1 is a vertical sectional view of a lastequipped with my device and inplace upon the spindle. Fig. 5 is a side sectional view of a modifiedform of my device. Figs.

(3 and 7 are perspective views of the protector.

A represents a last comprising a'toe section B and a heel section C. Thetop part of heel section C is fiat. These sections ll and C are shown asof a usual construction connect by a hinge 10 and spring 11. In the heelortion O is a cylindrical opening 12. My protector D is formedpreferably of a single piece of metal Ct uprising a fiat portion whoseoutlines correspond with the outlines of the flat surface of the top 15of heel portion 0. The middle portion ofmy protector is raised at 22 andis beveled or slopes inward shown at 21 terminating in the ridge 28.Through thecenter of this raised portion and ridge 23 extends a passage24: of ailarger diameter than the width of ridge and i-such size thatthe spindle will comfortably enter therein. This passage extends throughthe Patented ma is. rare. 1

entire protector and through a tubular extension 25. This tubularextension 25 enters opening 12 in the heel portion C-and is held inplace therein by means of apin 13 which passes through the last andthrough tubular extension Thereby the protector D is held firmly inplace and prevented from turning by a single pin near the middle of heelportion G. By this method of fastens ing, the danger of splittingthelast is much reduced.

F represents a table or bench and -G a support thereon which carries ashouldered collar which forms a base for spindle 31. As will be seen inFig. it, the ridge 23 of protector D so rests on base 30 that it isimpossible for the upper portion 40 of the shoe H in the process oflasting, heeling or leveling to be pinched-between the shoulder and theprotector or between the shoulder and the last.

In Fig. 5,1 show a modified form of my device in which C is the heelportion of the last in which is an opening in which may be inserted aferrule 51. In this case, the protector has a flat portion 52, a raisedbeveled portion 53 and a passage'56 substantially similar to theprotector D, but ferrule 51 is not attached thereto. The protector is soheld in place by means of screws 54 which enter the last that passage 56registers with the passage in ferrule 51.

As the flat portion of the protector rests on the flat portion of theheel section, the force of any pressure is distributed and the tendencyof the last to chip or split is reduced. What I claim as my device anudesire to cover by Letters Patent, is: I

1. A last and upper protector comprising a piece of metal having a flatportion which fits the flat portion of the last and a raised beveledportion which extends upward therefrom forming. a ridge, and a tubularextension opposite the raised beveled p0r tion, there being a passagethrough the tubular'extension and the ridge.

2. .Thecombination of a last having a flat ridge, and a tubularextension integral therewith which extends into the cylindrical openingin the last there being a passage through the tubular extension and theridge,

together with a pin which passes through protector comprising a piece ofmetal havinga fiat portion which-fits the flat portion of the heel and araised beveled portion (1 'ical passage .which registers with thelindrical passage in the last, and means attaching the protector to thelast.

4;. The combination of a last having a fiat CV- for =-tignatnre inpresence of two witnesses. forming a ridge through which is acyhnportion at the top of the heel and a cy1in drical opening therein,with 1 inst and upper protector comprising a piece of metal 2 having aflat portion. which fits the fiat por tion of the lost and a, raisedbeveled portion which extents upward therefrom forming a ridge, anti :1tuhuhlr extension integru tlwrewith'ivhioh extends into the cylindrical2 opening' in the iilhjil, there being a passage through the tubularextension and ti a ridge.

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I W tnesses:

Jose i- (I P. CLOUGi-r, WILLIAM C. SMALL.

